Thanks to the wisdom of the European Court of Human Rights, hate preacher Abu Qatada is due to be back on British streets within three months.

Last week, a bunch of judges in Strasbourg ruled that the UK could not deport the “extraordinarily dangerous” Qatada, because sending him packing back to Jordan would be in breach of his human rights.

Well, what about the human rights of every man, woman and child in this country?

What about the financial cost to every UK taxpayer who has already forked out more than £1million in benefits, prison and legal fees to shelter this vile radical?

What about the millions more it will cost to carry on protecting the man linked to al-Qaeda terror attacks and his wife and kids?

Faceless law lords in Strasbourg should not be allowed to decide who walks our streets. When the European Court of Human Rights rides roughshod over British justice, something is fundamentally wrong with our relationship with Europe. Time we told them to back off.